bulla

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The store sold everyday goods and featured a large brick oven that was used to make its famous bulla cakes, flavorful flat pastries made with flour, ginger and molasses.

From Washington Post • Jan. 13, 2021

In ancient times, a seal stamp, or bulla, was used to authenticate documents or items.

From Fox News • Apr. 1, 2019

A boy with a bulla, sitting, from Tarquinii, is "supposed to represent Tages, the mysterious boy-god, who sprung from the furrows of that site."

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

L. bullire to be in a bubbling motion, from bulla bubble; akin to Gr.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

The skull is elongated and narrow; and the auditory bulla large, elongated and rounded at both ends.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various